On Friday 20 January 2006 05:56, Tom Allison wrote: >Tim Hardy wrote: >> If you're really worried you could install and run chkrootkit to see >> if there's anything lurking on your machine that shouldn't be there >> but I'm sure you'll find nothing and that there's an innocent >> explanation for all this. >> >> Sorry I can't help more. > >Before I unleash a beast such as this on my machine. > >Can you tell me what chrootkit does/does not do? >Mainly -- what are the chances of creating problems...
Zip. It scans the system looking for files whose signatures match known rootkit and some viri stuff. I run it 2x a day from crontab on my firewall box, and I keep it uptodate. And the combo of the router and the firewall have pretty well kept the blackhats out, its not found anything in 4 or 5 years now. But its just another of the many guard dogs one can kennel. It sends you an email with the results of the run. Otherwise its a fairly quiet roommate. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
